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Why is the SSH Max Reconnection attempts option limited to a max value of 8? #7552
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What is the point of making this a setting if I'm not allowed to set it to the value I want?
I think this field should be able to accept values greater than 8.
What's the rationale for 8 being the absolute max limit anyone anywhere on this planet would ever want?
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eleanorjboyd commentedon Nov 22, 2022
Hello! We do not actually have a reason for the 8 retries, or at least not one we could find in our resources now. The setting description is actually incorrect, if you set it to null it will retry infinite number of times so for now if you want to set it to null that will get you the most retries. Moving forward I will mark this as a bug to fix so we update the setting to allow >8 and update the description to match behavior. Thanks!
zeptoon commentedon Nov 23, 2022
Awesome, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joshspicer commentedon Dec 13, 2024
May I ask why you'd need to set this higher than 8 (maybe there's something else we can improve more holistically)? We also have a configurable timeout (which can be set to infinity) that may be of interest to you